PRESUMPTUOUSNESS • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Presumptuousness

... the desire to thrust his face out into the night, he felt now an equally unaccountable impulse to speak to her and ask her if he could in any way be of service to her. But he could see no excuse for this presumptuousness in himself. If she was in distress it was not of a physical sort for which he might have suggested his services as a remedy. She was neither hungry nor cold, for there was a basket at her side in which he had a glimpse of broken bits of food; and at her ...

— The Courage of Marge O'Doone • James Oliver Curwood